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Pricedrop.
Koofr Cloud Storage: Lifetime Subscription (1TB)
$119.97
(usually is around $139.99 or something like that, coupons can't be used with stacksocial koofr offer anymore)
Not bad. Koofr has been solid for years.
Usually with coupons one would have obtained it at about that same price.
That's true, but coupons don't work for Koofr offers anymore as you noticed few weeks ago and also it seems like Koofr lifetime offer is about to go from stacksocial ... so this could be one of the last chances to get it relatively cheap.
Was $119.97 the lowest for Lifetime Subscription (1TB)?
I got it in 2019 for $78 ($129 with 40% off coupon). One of the best deals I've ever scored from Stacksocial. Service has been rock solid, dependable. Rclone support brought it over the top, for me.
To the best of my knowledge, it never went back down to that price. And Stacksocial coupons haven't been that great in recent years, mostly they jack the price up and then offer 20% off to the normal sale price.
I am paying good amount for a storage vps and now i am thinking, why can't i move to this kind of service (lifetime) to save bucks and no need to manage one more vps.
is koofr can be a good backup service to backup other vps's data?
i am planning to use rclone to do that.
I use less than 2TB storage, so any service with rclone works for me.
Yes. Koofr can be used with rclone. You can find Koofr in "rclone config".
yes but my question is...
is it a good idea to move from storage vps to koofr for vps backup purpose?
i.e. reliability and large no. of files (especially if i forget to ignore node_modules, vendor etc folders)
i should have framed it properly earlier...
Nothing beats Herzner Storage Box with snapshot feature if used differently
Also since its for backup, i really don't need all features like picture viewing, sharing etc
so if there is any other cheap service available....i can go with that too
Right now Koofr is reliable, if this is what you wish to know. A storage VPS is also reliable (depending on provider of VPS).
If we are talking about Koofr vs a good VPS provider for storage, I would recommend the VPS. With the VPS you have more than just storage, you can run applications and services, you can use whatever transmission method of data you want, you can even encrypt the data within the server with your own desired methods. Some VPS providers even create backups of VPS, while others offer even free snapshots.
At the end of the day it all depends what you wish to achieve. If you're undecided: grab both. Use a VPS for storage, then create some simple script for cron backup into Koofr.
thanks for this, but my storage is around 1.2TB so can't fit in their first plan and second plan is way too much for me
it will fit ... if you think "outside the box"
10 snapshots mean 10 TB. So practically can accommodate 10 + 1= 11 TB total with 1 TB of hot/online data. Restoring from an offline copy is tricky though, need to move the online copy else where.
Or can keep 9 offline copies with 1 acting as a temporary buffer for such restoring purposes.
Not really.. If you are not changing whole 10TB each day/week. It's ZFS and CoW so only "differences" (be it new uploads or new removals) are counted as snapshot size.
So if you have 950GB stored and have weekly snapshot and during that week you upload 30GB.. snapshot will be 30GB. Or next week you delete 100GB snapshot would be 100GB etc..
I mean to store 1 TB worth of files, take a snapshot, delete the entire 1 TB files and put new 1 TB worth of data. This way can have 1 TB of online data and 1 TB of offline data. This approach should be extendable to theoretically store 11 TB of data with the downside that at any time only 1TB worth of data is readily accessible.
EDIT: Looks like space occupied by snapshots count against the storage quota. So the above approach doesn't seem to be possible.
I just tried backing up from a single vps to koofr and it took 34 mins for 6gb.
with that speed, i really can't rely on it.
i don't need to restore from backups often but when i need to do that, i can't wait for hours for simple 20GB backup right....
at the end, it boils down to your priority. Speed or reliability or cost. Typically you may be able to hit just 1 for sure. Add more and you will need to compromise somewhere else.
If you are so concerned with speeds, you should invest in a local storage option like external drive which you would have immediate access to.
6gb for 34 minutes - it could fluctuate always depending on the peering.
Even if you get a service which offers fast speeds today, it may change in the future and you will end up being disappointed.
Once again, I think at this time you may want to see what is your priority.
Guys...i have a question (don't want to create a new thread so bumping this)
which vps's are nearer to koofr location or which providers have lowest latency from koofr servers?
back up is taking time and i am ok with that but incase of a vps is fked up, i can't wait for hours to restore so i want to know this.
preferably bigger hosts with hourly billing.